View Full Version : AlterNet: What's Behind the Right Wing's Bizarre Obsession With the Gold Standard?
jct74
01-17-2011, 03:31 AM
...A return to the "gold standard" would chain workers to credit, which works out great for the economic royalists the right wing really represents...
http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/149550/what%27s_behind_the_right_wing%27s_bizarre_obsessi on_with_the_gold_standard/?page=entire
It mentions Ron Paul and Rand Paul and of course the whackjob Tuscon shooter, which we can expect to hear from any opponents of the gold standard from now on. This was just posted on the front page of AlterNet about an hour ago so the comment section is pretty much empty if anyone wants to hit it up.
FauxCapitalist
01-17-2011, 09:25 AM
We know it's not an objective article with other articles like, "Hate and Violence Are Encoded in the DNA of the American Right."
They failed to mention economist Ravi Batri, who is a considered a "progressive" economist, and supports a government-backed gold standard.
http://fauxcapitalist.com/2010/05/07/support-for-a-gold-backed-currency-crosses-the-political-divide/
Corydoras
01-17-2011, 02:29 PM
I guess they think "progress" means trotting out an 1896 speech.
the count
01-17-2011, 04:28 PM
For 99% of the media (everything sans Fox and maybe news radio) not being liberal is the same as being a nazi, homophobe, right wing nut, gold crackpot, etc.
Of course, most people do not realize that most of the media is under Jewish leadership, and Jews in general are left wing liberals. Watch me get banned just for saying this truth.
hugolp
01-17-2011, 04:31 PM
[I]...A return to the "gold standard" would chain workers to credit, which works out great for the economic royalists the right wing really represents...
Paper money promotes debt, but they accuse gold of chaining workers to credit? Amazing. This is one of the points of the National Socialist propaganda. Accuse your oponents of your own faults.
fj45lvr
01-17-2011, 10:47 PM
maybe they know that with gold the gov. will be more hard pressed to deficit spend? No progressive could stand that thought
BuddyRey
01-18-2011, 12:12 AM
You would think that Progressives, who are so quick to note the stark differences in wealth concentration between the working and upper middle classes would have caught on by now to the fact that today's economic royalists have attained that status without the aide of laissez-faire markets...but maybe we're asking too much by demanding logical thinking from people who have so eagerly abandoned its practice.
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